I understand that you are not specifically talking about open source, but as the auther of several open source visualization systems (including Vis5D, which was probably the first open source visualization system) I want to point out that there is a real opportunity for someone who starts an open source AGI project.
When you provide a good open source system, all kinds of smart people you never heard of send you valuable new functions to add to your software, as well as subjecting your system to much more exhaustive testing than you could (and often sending you bug fixes). Unless you are rich, you can't hire the kind of talent that volunteers to help. I don't know of any current open source AGI project, so there may be the opportunity for someone to create the first. Or is there already one that I'm not aware of? Of course, you have to create a good system (and one that encourages others to dig in and add pieces) in order to create a strong community of programmers around it. You could be the Linus Torvalds of AGI. If I were working on an AGI systems (I'm not, since I'm about to turn 56, about to retire, and currently enjoying a breather from coding my butt off for the past 35 years) I'd definitely see creating the first open source AGI system as a big opportunity. Cheers, Bill ---------------------------------------------------------- Bill Hibbard, SSEC, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608-263-4427 fax: 608-263-6738 http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
